Board directs staff to draft stronger code-enforcement process including administrative citations

After public comment from several residents describing long-running neighborhood issues — including hoarding, abandoned vehicles, rodent infestations and children's safety concerns — the board discussed options to streamline code enforcement. Supervisor Brown and other board members requested a "one-stop" intake so constituents wouldn't have to navigate multiple departments; staff described a proposed two-step process that keeps the existing notice-and-abatement path but inserts an administrative citation stage in the middle, with initial fines to incentivize compliance and an appeals process to the hearing board.